Golden Fluid Acrylics

Golden Fluid Acrylics are highly intense, permanent acrylic colors with a consistency similar to heavy cream. Produced from lightfast pigments, not dyes, they offer very strong colors with very thin consistencies, and contain no fillers or extenders. Golden Fluid Acrylics are ideal for spraying, brushing, and staining.

Golden Artist Colors, Inc., started creating Golden Fluid Colors on a custom basis for artists requesting a low-viscosity, pigment-saturated paint. Some of these artists wanted to pour, puddle, and drip their acrylic paints, others wanted to stain, using the acrylics as an alternative to watercolors, and still others wanted to use the paints for spray application.

Many artists were already thinning Golden Heavy Body Acrylics with water to achieve these effects. Although simply adding water or medium met the needs of most artists, some felt the resulting paint was not strong enough. These artists desired an undiluted acrylic paint that would provide optimal tinting strength and coverage.

Eventually, the popularity of Golden’s Fluid custom formula reached a point where the company was able to introduce it as a standard line of products.

Unlike mixtures of heavy-bodied paints and water, which produce weak color and films by dilution, Golden Fluid Acrylics contain high pigment levels suspended in an acrylic polymer vehicle. The result offers fine dispersion, high tinting strength, durability, flexibility, and good adhesion.

Golden Fluid Acrylics are formulated similarly to Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, the main difference being the viscosity or consistency at which the paints are finished. Therefore, the pigment load or color strength of Golden Fluid Acrylic paints is comparable to Golden Heavy Body Acrylics. In fact, because of the greater leveling of Fluid Acrylics, some artists believe Golden’s Fluids are actually stronger than the Heavy Body colors.

Golden Fluid Acrylics load a brush more evenly than thicker paints, and they also flow consistently off the brush, allowing for longer, more uniform brush strokes. When a heavier stroke is required, the Fluids can be blended with any of the Golden Gel Mediums. Soft, Regular, Heavy, or Extra-Heavy Gels will all thicken the paint to various extents. Because of the thin consistency and potency of Golden Fluid Acrylics, they are the easiest of all the paint systems to incorporate into powerful gel mixtures.

Golden Fluid Acrylics retain excellent flexibility when dry, greatly diminishing the likelihood of cracking that occurs in other natural and synthetic polymer systems. They also can absorb the constant stress and strain placed on canvas when shipped or as it expands and contracts with changes in temperature and humidity.

I'm a "bush artist," painting often in "plein air" situations, and frequently in the jungles and savannas of Africa, and a professional nomad as well, so I am always a guest somewhere. I love Golden and their Fluid Acrylics because:1. Product itself is amazing. High quality. Intensely pigmented. Texture is easy and versatile to work with - I mix with glazing or water to achieve what I need. I tried working with another brand's gel consistency and I will choose liquid every time.2. Affordable and accessible (except I wish they'd sell it in Johannesburg, South Africa).3. Golden's technical staff are the best. They're willing to spend as much time as it takes to instruct and solve problems, and readily available. They take their commitment seriously, and warm and friendly while doing so.4. Acrylics work for me, because as a nomad, I can't have a product that smells, takes long to dry, or has toxic clean-up. The tiny bottles easily travel with me; I can refill as needed from the bigger bottles.5. Very little wasted paint. The consistency of it is perfect for me. I paint in detail, so sometimes I can just use a single drop of paint. 6. Their range of colors is exciting, especially the metallics and interference colors. I'm still - always - learning what I can create by mixing.7. Their support of not-for-profit work, with discounted seconds, is beneficial.

I use this paint to alter Magic the Gathering cards and absolutely love it! There is enough pigment so that when I water the paint down, the color does not suffer. The finish is great and doesn't chip.

I love color! I bought these originally to do some water marbling (and they worked great!), but now I find I love them for being them. My medium of choice tends to be watercolor. These allow me to get the best of watercolor and the permanence of acrylics all at once! Fun, fun fun!

These are expensive but worth it. The flow is ideal for mapping out areas for color, there is no substitute. On watercolor paper, they can be used as the main acrylic product with good success. The colors are bright and true. I highly recommend fluid acrylics along side your heavy body acrylics. Plus, you can make them drip!

Golden Fluid acrylics are wonderful - pigmentful (is that a word?), glidingly smooth, vibrant, easy to work with. They work beautifully for art journaling and collage - you can paint with them, use them with a gelli plate, stamp with them. They will not disappoint.

Golden makes the Best acrylic paints! Great colors that cover with lots of pigment. The fluid acrylics are perfect for when you want a smooth finish. They are way too pricey in retail stores, but Blick makes them much more affordable for me. I really like the squeeze bottle size.

When I started painting, I bought the cheapest acrylics I could find, thinking they were all the same- they aren't. Acrylics change color quite a bit when they dry. As I invested in better and better paints, I finally gave the Goldens a try. It really is like painting with a whole new medium, The colors are intense, they dry BRIGHT, and the paint is so pigmented that you can create the most brilliant, amazing effects with it. It's very fluid in consistency (no brushstrokes) but a little tiny bit goes a LONG way. Perfect for layers of color. The color is like nothing else.

I couldn't imagine painting without them. Do yourself a favor and skip the cheapies and just start investing in the Golden's right away when you start painting.

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